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When PowerPoint is launched, or when you create a new presentation, you typically see the first slide of the presentation. This slide is known as the Title slide. It contains placeholders for the slide title and the slide subtitle. Note that this layout is different from other slides which typically have a title placeholder with another placeholder for bulleted text (or a chart, graphic, etc.). All these other slides are influenced by the Slide Master, which governs their appearance and layout. The appearance and look of the Title Slide is influenced by the Title Master. This is a separate Master that is a subset of the Slide Master.
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Even if you are not aware, every presentation you create has its own Slide Master. This Master governs the default attributes like slide background, font choices, colors, and even the positioning of the placeholders in your slide. Thus if you end up with a 50 slide presentation that uses center aligned titles that you want changed to left aligned titles in a larger font size. Then you need to make this change only once within the Slide Master, and all 50 slides update at once with your new Title formatting!
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Liz Mckenzie is Head of PR and Communications at Canva, an online design and publishing tool which makes graphic design simple for everyone. Since launching in 2013, Canva has grown to over 20 million users across 190 countries, with more than 1.5 billion designs created, at 36 designs per second. Today Canva is growing from strength the strength, with over 700 team members working together on a mission to empower everyone to create beautiful designs.
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Canva’s Infographic Templates: Conversation with Liz Mckenzie
August 17, 2019
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Every individual slide that you see within your PowerPoint deck may have its own unique content, but there’s so much consistency as far as the look of successive slides is considered. All slides typically have the same slide background, and also the same fonts. You really don’t have to do anything other than adding new slides and typing in your text. All the formatting is taken care of by some magical behind-the-scenes intelligence within PowerPoint. Also if you print notes pages or handouts from PowerPoint, you will find that these are also formatted to synchronize with the look of your slides. Ever wonder how you can control all this intelligence? Well, the answer is the Masters that are contained within every PowerPoint presentation.
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Tagged as: 04-07, PowerPoint Tutorials, Slide Master and Slide Layouts, Themes Templates Masters and Layouts
With a background in cognitive psychology and studio art, Johanna Kneifel is all about design and technology that make a social impact. She’s primarily interested in exploring how visual design affects personal perception, and how this can be applied to educational or marketing strategies. Alongside managing amazing design projects at INSCALE, she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
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Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Johanna Kneifel
September 30, 2019
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Dan Bruck is CMO at Fasetto, Inc. He thrives at the intersection of art and commerce. His career started in the entertainment industry in Hollywood where he produced and directed network reality TV shows. Transitioning to corporate marketing, Xerox selected him as their Worldwide Creative Director. Crafting corporate tag lines, writing national ads and producing webinars, events and tradeshows with unprecedented ROI gave him the all the experience necessary to transition his career to the CMO role. His well-documented success creating hyper-growth for a series of companies has been achieved by his mastery of online, traditional and live marketing. Dan has degrees in Communication, Marketing and an MBA.
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Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Dan Bruck
September 24, 2019
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Working with Themes in various versions of Microsoft Office (and PowerPoint), we stumbled into a huge road-block: Theme THMX files saved in Theme Builder refused to be applied in PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac). Strangely, these THMX files continued to work in PowerPoint 2007 (Windows) and 2008 (Mac). We compared the THMX files created by Theme Builder to those saved from within PowerPoint, and realized that Theme Builder actually removes content from THMX files. Worse, it does so without warning, and you can easily lose all your Slide Layouts, Slide Master, basic presentation info, and even the THMX file’s thumbnail by just opening a perfectly good THMX and re-saving it within Theme Builder! Unfortunately, there are some parameters of a THMX file that are not exposed in PowerPoint. You must edit these either using an XML editor or Theme Builder.
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John Korchok has been creating reliable branded Office templates and web sites for more than 20 years. He is certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist Master, is an award-winning technical writer and is skilled in programming VBA, JavaScript for PDF and web, HTML, CSS, and PHP. John is a moderator for Microsoft Answers and a volunteer at Stack Overflow, providing answers for Word and PowerPoint for Windows and macOS. He currently works for Brandwares in metropolitan New York.
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Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with John Korchok
September 10, 2019
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Emmanuel Gueritte is Marketing Director of DialogLoop, a Canadian Company. He spent 20 years creating product marketing value in international corporations like Apple, Toshiba, Motorola and Smart Technologies. He is a technology strategist, an experienced product evangelist, and a public speaker.
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DialogLoop: Conversation with Emmanuel Gueritte
September 9, 2019
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After finding that Themes saved in Theme Builder were not working in PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac), we decided to explore the issue further, and find out what exactly Theme Builder did to cause these incompatibilities. So, to compare the Theme saved in Theme Builder with its original version (which was saved in PowerPoint 2007/2010 as a Theme).
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